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Museum & Buildings
Trails and Grounds open daily sunrise to sunset.
Join us in the Modern Art Galleries for an exploration of our temporary exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment! You’ll meet exhibition artist Paula Hayes, learn about her artwork in the installation, and see firsthand how Paula uses her work to explore the connection between humans and the natural world. Don’t miss this chance to experience your museum more fully and get a behind-the-scenes look at the exhibition. See you there!
Free, no tickets required.
About the Artist
Paula Hayes (born 1958 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American visual artist and designer who works with sculpture, installation art, and landscape design. Hayes lived and worked in New York City for over two decades and now lives in Athens, New York since 2013. Hayes is known for her terrariums and other living artworks, as well as her large-scale public and private landscape commissions. A major theme in Hayes’ work is the connection of people to the natural environment, and much of her work is about the evolving relationship to growing and maintaining large and small-scale ecosystems.
Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by Art Bridges.
Additional major support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and Terra Foundation for American Art, and Galen, Debi, and Alice Havner.
